Re: Getting RefCounted to work with classes

[uri via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 21:14:03 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
Hello,
the code below compiles and runs fine. However, when I change 
Payload from struct to class I get compiler errors:

Error	1	Error: template instance 
std.typecons.RefCounted!(Payload, 
cast(RefCountedAutoInitialize)1) does not match template 
declaration RefCounted(T, RefCountedAutoInitialize autoInit = 
RefCountedAutoInitialize.yes) if (!is(T == 
class))	C:\Users\Nutzer\Windows Ordner\Documents\Visual Studio 
2013\Projects\RefCountedScratch\RefCountedScratch\main.d	26	

I tried many things, but nothing did it. Any help appreciated 
:-).
Thanks, Bienlein


import std.stdio;
import std.typecons;

struct Payload
{
        private int num = 0;

        this(int i)
        {
                num = i;
                writefln("Payload's constructor called");
        }

        ~this()
        {
                 writefln("Payload's destructor called");
        }
}



int main(string[] argv)
{
    alias RefCounted!(Payload, RefCountedAutoInitialize.yes) 
Data;

    int bar = 12;
    Data data = Data(bar);

    return 0;
}

RefCounted does not work with classes. Classes are reference 
types already.


The key is in the error message ...if(!is(T == class))... 
restricts the template to non-class types only.

cheers,
uri